Wearing an electronic mask, you walked through a number of alleys to an electronic store, checking out what they have in stock. You looked at the older music players that range from CDs to independent devices.

"Not as bad," you thought, hearing all the electronic devices 'speaking', "but still pretty annoying".

Soon, you heard some feet walking next to yourself and you saw a girl with dark purple hair, triangular onyx eyes, and plug-like earphone jacks that are hanging from her earlobes.

"That is both freaky and awesome," you thought, "But I feel like that's something I shouldn't say."

The girl looked around and you saw her looking at a music player that seems to have a strange tape slot.

"I heard about these things," you said to her. "Apparently, you need something called a "cassette" to put into them. And what will really suck if the tape on those things suddenly snap."

"Same," she said. "Then again, that's probably what the latest in entertainment was back in the day."

"Yep. I'm Y/N, by the way."

"Kyoka Jiro. Nice to meet ya. What brings you here?"

"Just looking for something I could use for parts. You know, the ones that aren't expensive as hell, and there's no way I'm going to be taking apart a new phone for them."

Kyoka: "A gadget nut?"

"No, just a sucker for building devices."

Kyoka: "Already prefer you to the overly eccentric girl that sees her creations as newborns."

"Well, they are in a sense, but I won't delve into that."

You decided to grab the music player that uses old-fashioned headphones. After buying it, you walked outside the store to see a TV store showing that the famous band Samurai will have their concert in 6 weeks.

Kyoka: "No way! Samurai's concert is just in 2 months?!"

"A month and a half, but same thing. So I guess I might see you there?"

Kyoka: "Yeah, if we're lucky that the crowd doesn't sweep us away. Well, I have to go. Pleasure talking to ya."

As she walked away, you went back to you apartment and entered it to see all your devices, monitors and mainframes set up. You used your Technopathy to access the Hero Academy's database and saw a list of new students with Kyoka among them.

"Ah. This is quite a surprise."